When you were a kid and stole your friends’ toys, your parent probably asked you this angry hypothetical: “How do you think that made them feel?” But what if you…
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Caged
September 1, 2015What would happen if we rounded up all the critically endangered animals and plants and put them in armored zoos?
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A Drone of One’s Own
August 25, 2015What does the world look like when everybody with a smart phone also has a drone?
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Eternal Life in Prison
August 11, 2015What if “life in prison” could mean 100 or 200 or 400 years? Does that change the way that sentences are dolled out? What happens when a person gets out…
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Sunward Bound
August 4, 2015If the Earth, somehow, stopped rotating around the sun, it would have exactly 64 1/2 days before it crashed into the fireball at the center of our solar system. Here’s…
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Facetime
July 28, 2015Your face is one of your most valuable possessions. But what happens when facial recognition is so good that any company can grab an image of your face while you’re…
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Winded
July 21, 2015What would happen if a company put up so many wind turbines that they actually changed the climate on Earth? I know this sounds totally crazy, but I swear to…
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Grounded
July 14, 2015Need to get from New York to Paris? Or San Diego? Chances are you’re not taking a car or a bus or a boat to go there. Instead, you’d hop…
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The Bodybuilders
July 7, 2015We all want to be our best selves. But what if you could add almost anything to your body and mind? A camera here, an exoskeleton there. This is the…
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The Supernova Next Door
June 30, 2015We often think of stars as twinkling, harmless little points of light that fill our night sky with majesty. But stars can be dangerous too. When they come to the…